The Irish standard., 1887-07-30
WOMEN AS INVENTORS,
Nineteen Hundred Entries TO Their Credit
Found in the Pension Office.

Nineteen Hundred Entries TO Their Credit
Found in the Pension Office.
The world has not given woman due
| credit for her inventive faculties.
Few persons realize what an impor-
tant role she is playing in the design
ing Of numerous articles, useful as well
as ornamental! The records of the
Patent Office show that fully nineteen
hundred patents are claimed by
women. Moreover, not q small NUM-
ber Of the patents granted to men are
really for ingenious devices and ideas
that have originated in a feminine
brain. The women of New York have
been granted more patents than their
sisters in any other State. The women
| of Massachusetts, Ohio: Indiana and
Wisconsin rank next in order In
machinery women have done much,
Almost daily impr ovemenrs in sewing
machines come from her brains. In
the model-room of the Patent o flee,
nearly side by side with Elias Howe's
machine, is one made bya Miss Roscn-
thai.
The first marine telescope was the
production OF Mrs Sarah y. Matl,er,
of New York. Mrs. Montgomery shows
section Of /, war vessel provided with
81 series OF iron plates so constructed
as to resist shot and she'll There is
also in the model-room all engine Of
ofcnse as we'll as defense in the shape
OF a hrcech loading gun credited to
Miss Ruth GosIlan. Among tho more
peaceful inventions by women are a
car-coupling pin and all improved rail-
way for street cars 4 lifnratt is a
contrivance Of Mrs. Beaseley. An
appliance for raising sunken vessels
has been patented by Mrs. Emily
Taney, of Pennsylvania, She has also
contriye'l 81 syphon propeller pump.
Mrs. Flackeltou, Of Milwaukee, claims
to have made two hundred women self
supporting by means OF a little portable
kiln for firing decorated china. Miss
Mary Broughton, of New York, discov
cred u new mos1e Of forming air cham
bers in dental plates for artificial teeth.
Miss Ameli;, Bird desired to make II
noise ia the world and her genius
scared to Steam whistles. Ars Caro-
line Brooks. If Arkansas, has patented
sonse lubricating mo|ds in plaster.
Mrs Brooks will be remembered as
the b;,ttcr artist ut the Centennial, her
lovely creation of lolanthe attracting
much attention. She now has u studio
III New York.
Mrs. Sarah Anaes. OF Massachusetts,
patented the bust Of Abraham Lincoln.
OF what the patent~right consists does
not clearly appear, as artists generally
consider such things creations rather
shan Inventions. Mrs. Cornelia Beau
mont, Of Ohio has a patent life boat to
her credit. Mrs Martha J. Coston
has beo,, very successful with her pyro-
technic night signals She is an exam
pie OF what pluck ansl perseverance, can
do AT the death Of her husband his
papers were In Il chaotic condition and
lis designs not fully perfected. Un-
aided, she brought them to point
where they were practically valuable
and she remained almost ten years i'll
PRODUCING them in the various foreign
ports. She has been rewarded for her
perseverance, by a fortune. Among the
uucc; inventions is an inst7um ment fer
restoring facial symmetry b.; Miss Fam
NY Batcheltlel, OF Massachusetts,. The
numerous patents grentcd to women
include free ;c:al,cs, aust~brushes, baby
tenders, devices for killing mosquitoes
and other insects, wiadowwashers
glove-fasteners, food-pr escrvers, cow
millzers, 1isl, washers, washing-ma-
chimes. coohing-stovcs, corpse prcserv-
ers, bustles. face lotions and AL kinds
of garments. "A. D. Montaiyn, IN N.
Y Wo1kG.